I have now taken two cooking classes from Helen and I am very happy with what I have learnt!…read more I have taken the French baking class and the meat class! Anyone at any stages in their skills are welcome!

I just had "Seasoning and Browning class," which was FANTASTIC. Helen is great, and the class is…read morevery informative. I could not recommend more.

My wife booked us a couples class here as our anniversary gift. This was on a Saturday evening and…read morethere were two other couples. The class was focused on a few Mexican dishes, specifically Chicken Tinga/Ting De Pollo with gorditas and a number of side dishes. First we went over the instructions for all of the dishes and then broke up into groups to work on various different parts of the meal. The team was amazing. All of the ingredients and utensils were provided and they were always right there to help if we had any questions or had trouble finding anything. It was fun and informative and the food we made was actually really good too. We took home the recipes (and a few leftovers) and we are definitely planning to incorporate this dish into our normal routine. In addition to everything else, perhaps the best part is that at the end, we didn't have any dishes to clean! I highly recommend Third Space for a date night or team building event.

Great place to have an adult birthday party. We were educated on how to make pasta, sauce and…read moremeatballs. They provided a delicious dessert and we did BYOB! What a fun night, we look forward to going back again.

I cannot recommend this cooking studio enough!…read more Our visit here was a birthday present for my girlfriend, and we both were very excited about taking a cooking class together. Well, we not only had a great time learning a new cuisine, but we made some new friends in the process. The studio is in a private home, so the setting is very intimate and private. So, if you have never touched a cooking utensil before, you are definitely in good hands here. If you have, then this becomes an art in learning new and exciting foods and the history behind them. After the food is prepared, we all sit down to dine together and engage in conversation over the meal in which we all took part in preparing. Such fun! Be aware that the studio is BYOB, but the studio does provide wine glasses and soft drinks. We had such a great time that we are hoping to do this again soon. If you enjoy cooking, have always wanted to try, wanted to experience food of different cultures, or all of the above, you owe it to yourself to go to HEAVEN ON EARTH !!!

We had an incredible night at Heaven on Earth cooking school. Extremely comfortable environment…read more Lela and Kendall were exceptional. Our entire party enjoyed their meal.

We had a corporate outing at CSCA this evening. Chef Pedro was so helpful and never lost his cool…read morewith nine people asking questions at the same time. I have a garlic intolerance and the CSCA team designed such a strong group of recipes, no one on my team even noticed they were garlic-free. Everyone loved the food and I am so grateful to be able to join in the full experience without it being focused on a dietary restriction. Thank you, Pedro and the CSCA team!

Great place to take a class. Enjoyed 'soups and stews' class with Chef Heidi and her student…read moreassistants. For some great recipes and tips- enjoyed cooking and enjoying soups with my classmates. There were about a dozen of us.

Last night I went to the All About Chicken class. I was a little nervous because I went alone, and…read morebecause I'm not that comfortable in the kitchen. Honestly, I don't really like to cook. But I had a gift card so off I went. Patty welcomed me into her beautiful home ... a fire going and nice music, and I met the three others in our class, one of whom also came alone. A sip of wine later and I was facing my own naked bird at my own station in her huge kitchen -- on my own board with my own knives -- waiting to be cut up. Patty was so patient with me ... helping me hold the knife, find the joints ... and before I knew it I had six beautiful pieces ready to be prepared in 3 different recipes. We cooked every last part of those birds along with a delicious rice dish and sat down a few hours later to a leisurely meal admiring our work. We could have stayed there until the wee hours at her table, the four of us and Patty; we felt completely at home. (Except that she cleaned up!) She also does children's classes. My kids went this summer. She was excellent with keeping them all on task and managing her kitchen with six messy little ones having a ball. Oh --- and she does a Thai class ... that's the one I want to do next. I ate as much as I could. I left with the rest of my food in to go containers ready to serve my family today, and with the confidence to cook again tomorrow. I feel so confident now ... I want to try chopping onions and swirling butter and making my own stock at home.

I had the chance to try some of her appetizers and desserts at an event. Everything was amazing…read more.. the arancini balls, the Spanish tortilla, curried chicken sandwiches, the dips, confetti cookies, and hummingbird cupcakes, just to name a few. I asked the event host who made all the delicious treats and was introduced to Patty. She was very kind, personable, and encouraged me to keep eating! I hope to take one of her classes or use her talents for one of my own events.

My seven-year-old daughter attended the half-day cooking vacation program at Third Space Kitchen in…read moreNewton today and absolutely loved it. She can't wait to go back! The highlight for our family was that she brought home enough food for all three of us to share, including chicken empanadas, chicken quesadillas, biscuits, and ginger cookies. We also learned that vegetarian options are available, as another child in the program made a vegetarian version. It was a fun, hands-on experience that built confidence in the kitchen and resulted in a delicious lunch. Highly recommend!

Third Space was the perfect venue for our bachelorette party activity. The cooking class was…read morefast-paced and interesting, the food was delicious, and the atmosphere--with music, BYOB & time to socialize--was super enjoyable!

Great food and…read more great service This is a review of a Holiday party for the New England Scientific Manufactures Association that was held at the Culinary Center at Gordon's. I'm not much for fancy type parties but I have to admit this was an impressive display of culinary talents. Chiefs Paul Turano and Anne Moynihan kept my unsophisticated palette entertained by such delicious, delicate and delightful creations like Mionetto Prosecco, wild mushroom and goat cheese tart, braised escarole and pumpkin bread pudding. At the end warm apple crostata and butter pecan ice cream filled up any remaining space in my cavernous gizzard. Some truly incredible food. In between courses different wines were passed and and discussed. Since I know virtually nothing about wine it was a fascinating and mesmerizing experience. I never applied such adjectives as zingy, fruity, silky, toasty, or round to booze before. The food was prepared on a table right in front of the audience and servers and chefs were personable, funny, entertaining and just as nice as can be. I learned that there is more to food and booze than just seeing how fast you can shove in down your throat. It hard to imagine a place to hold an event better than Gordon's Culinary Center. Oh yeah, they also sell a lot of cool booze in the store on the other side.

I had to make a special page for the Culinary Center @ Gordon's because of all of the amazing…read moreevents they throw, that are totally different from the simple booze shopping expereince. Sommelier Smackdown, once a Yelp event and now a monthly happening is just about the coolest event out there! Think of it like a "dinner and theater date" only, your theater is standing in front of you joking away as they cook your meal and battle to pick the best wine! $65 bucks gets you a four course meal, cooked right in front of you by Chefs Louie and Ian of Sel De la Ter and pours of 8 different wines, picked by well known Sommelier's around town! The Sommelier's battle to pair the best wine with each course as you are entertained by cooking jokes and quips like "Chuck Noris can smell what the rock is cooking, because the rock is his person chef" that fly through the air right next to wine knowledge and cooking tips! I must admit, I love it so much, I have been going to the last 3 months straight and plan of being a pretty permanent fixture! If you are really into wine, and wine makers, make sure to check out the calendar of other events and lots of well known wine makers come through Gordon's for tastings. Hope to see you at the next SMACK DOWN!

Cheryl and Tracey are amazing. I went tonight with my family and we had the best time. My niece has…read morean egg allergy so they went out of their way to make sure our salad dressing was egg free and they had a separate egg free gnocchi recipe just for her! We all had so much fun learning the new recipes and eating all the food!! I highly recommend for a girls night or family night!

Clean, organized, engaging, fun, educational and memorable are all just a few of the positive words…read morethat come to mind when reflecting on the experience I had with my two children under 5 at Mixitup-Kitchen! Ms. Farhat has the patience of a saint and an incredibly warm and nurturing approach to working with the children. We enjoyed making apple crisp in the first of a series of classes focused on the ABC's which included preparing and mixing ingredients, sampling different kinds of apples and charting individual taste preferences, using crayons to draw their favorite apple on a copy of the recipe to take home and finally story time with a book that tied into the theme while waiting for the apple crisp to bake. The children were all kindly asked to wash their hands prior to handling any ingredients and were kept incredibly safe with activities designed to keep them away from the oven and used kid friendly kitchen tools in preparation of ingredients. I highly recommend registering your child for an upcoming cooking adventure at Mixitup-Kitchen and bring the joy of cooking to your children!

Milk Street is the brainchild of Christopher Kimball. He is a publisher and chef both. He created…read morethis around 2017, and it's both a podcast and a magazine. The podcast is free, but pushes his subscription service, which has a wide variety of formats. You can subscribe to the paper copy, the electronic one, both etc. He also sells various spices and cooking utensils, all of which he reviews and gives ideas for using. His podcasts are easy tom listen to and engaging. He brings on a variety of guests, from chefs to recipe creators to book authors and more.

Terrible experience and customer service -- stay away! I…read moreplaced an order and paid extra for 2-day shipping. Got a shipping notification a couple days later. Several days later, tracking showed UPS still hadn't received my order. Emailed customer service for an update. No response except a generic auto-reply. Several days later I tried to call the store and was told they don't handle online-shopping customer service; email is the only contact method. Two weeks after placing my order, since UPS still hadn't received my item, I emailed to cancel my order and get a refund. Still no response. Ultimately, I contacted my credit card to dispute the charge and, miraculously, within a couple hours Milk Street finally got back to let me know my order was canceled. I will never do business with Milk Street again.

You know how there can be a huge disconnect between what you ThinK you know, and what you really…read moreknow? Pick-up lines, working out, fashion (white sneakers do NOT go well with black jeans), marriage, cars, smartphones, laundry........ quite a sobering and humbling experience when you realize you're not a Sheen Goddess. For me, apparently, cooking is yet another one of my non-talents. A group of us attended Savory Green U last night to delve head-first into the secrets of non-phone-order fine dining. How to clean mushrooms, how to properly saute onions (DEFinately was doing that one wrong for 20 years..), how to zest a lemon, and use ramekins in setting up the 'mis en place'......... Admit it, I sound sexy now, no? Taught by Tracy Stamos (who may or may not be related to John Stamos), we learned about the long term and meaningful benefits of organic food, non-processed ingredients, and most importantly, efficient process in prepping and cooking. What makes SGU a bit different from other culinary classes is that Tracy takes a meaningful 'green' approach to teaching and cooking. Applying her Harvard degree in Environmental Sustainability, on top of her two education degrees, and combining it with food science and art from the Cambridge Culinary Institute, Tracy has created a niche in.... ............ "Sustainable Yum Yum". Teaching out of a brand new, commercial-grade kitchen in her home, SGU comes complete with a huge kitchen packed with Star Wars grade shiny pots, pans, weapons, and trinkets. After cooking is complete, students transfer to the extremely comfortable and classy dining room to feast on the completed food art under gorgeous chandelier lighting. Need a breather? You can sprawl out on one of the uber comfy couches in the attached living room, and bask in your newly acquired Jedi food tricks to woo your future romance. There is no intimidation factor here for first-timers, as Tracy's attentiveness immediately puts to ease any anxieties you may have. Highly recommend it! PS - she caters too!

I hardly ever get to connect with anyone any more. I think the closest I've gotten to meaningful…read morehuman interaction lately outside my home was when I flipped a guy the bird this morning when he cut me off on route one. Everyone has their face pushed up into their smart phones, iPods, lap tops and even when they're not, it seems they would rather look at their own scuffed shoes then say hi to someone. Tony invited me to cook with Tracy Stamos and friends at Savory Green. I love to cook. I cook all the time. I figured an opportunity to get out, learn a new recipe or two and see friends would be fun. There were 9 of us plus Tracy and her assistant. We were given the nights menu and tasks were divided up among us. We were given the task of creating the pork loin dish. It was an Herbed Coated Pork Tenderloin with ingredients like fresh parsley, mint, sage and dates. Yes she had an herb garden growing right on the table. Tracy's forte is sustainable cooking. Oh, and this is a state of the art kitchen. It was freaking awesome. I loved having knives that Freddy Krueger would be jealous of and two ovens as well as tons of cooking stuff...... There's something great about getting your hands right into food and making it yourself. The smells, tasting it as you begin to pull it together, cutting, marinating, mixing, basting, ... It's primal. It's also fun. BUT the thing I was getting at which made this so amazing, was the communal feeling of being with a group, working together to create something, having real interesting conversation and enjoying the fruits of our labors together. Quality time. That's what this was. Too often we go out to bars and drink ourselves stupid. We scream to be heard above the roar of crappy music and go home feeling like we might as well have skipped the whole night. This was the opposite of that. I got to enjoy delicious food. I got to enjoy good people. We ate in a beautiful living room with wine and the food WE cooked and continued our conversation and YES I was the life of the party but that isn't the point. The point is we all connected. I left full with a doggy bag wanting to hug people again. I didn't....but that's why I need to go back. We need to put down our phones and look around. We all need to experience things sometimes. Smell the sage, goat cheese and mint that's out there. Taste new things and experience things out of our comfort zones sometimes as well as hear what people have to say as we really listen to them. I loved this night. I would go back again and share this experience with others. And I will. Special Thanks to Tony and Tracy.